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Life After Email and Excel for Project Management: A Step-by-Step Guide to Replace Your Inbox and Spreadsheets

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There’s no denying that you can run a project using your inbox for communication and Excel for planning, organizing, and tracking progress. However, if you’re reading this, you’ve more-than-likely hit a wall using email and excel for managing projects. We think you’ll love Planio. Set up your projects.

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How to Build Products While Working Remotely: The Ultimate Remote Work Guide for Project Managers, Entrepreneurs, and Startups

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Use “office hours” to save your team from non-stop meetings. Focus on results (and use data to help you). Use documents, wikis, and knowledge bases to keep your team unblocked. Pro Tip: Limit the number of remote tools your team has to use. The great remote work debate is over: Working remotely is here to stay.

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Overcoming collaboration overload: How to choose (and use) the best collaboration tools for your team

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There are plenty of scapegoats when it comes to busywork, but there’s no denying that the increased use of collaboration tools hasn’t helped. The ultimate collaboration tool stack: Every tool your team needs to properly collaborate (and how to use them). Be selective and only use the essential collaboration tools.

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How to Manage a Remote Team and Stay Productive (From the World’s Top Remote Startups)

Planio

We spoke to managers at some of the world’s most successful remote companies, including Buffer, Zapier, Remote Year, Close.io, and Dribbble to understand the tools and techniques they use to keep their remote teams happy, productive, and on track. And why not? Comments get misconstrued. Expectations aren’t clearly set out.

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What is a Workflow? How to Create a Winning Workflow for Your Process

Planio

" If that's true, then most of us should be put in a straightjacket. Let's dive into the basics of what a workflow is, when and where to use them, and then look at some real-world examples of how they can help streamline and optimize your workday. Creating a project workflow in Planio that will save your team hours a week.

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What is a Help Desk? 7 Ways a Help Desk Can Improve Customer Retention

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In this guide, we’re going to cover everything you need to know about using help desk software, break down how your team should be structured around it, and then give some best practices to turn you into support superstars. What types of help desks are there and who on your team uses them? Don’t have a help desk (or have one you hate?)

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Getting Things Done (GTD) in 2019: An Updated Take on How to Achieve Stress-Free Productivity

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Use regular reminders to keep you on track. What do you need to do today? It’s a simple question that can quickly send you into a state of sweat-soaked stress. There are the tasks on your daily to-do list, of course. Plus planning for your next sprint. And you’ve got that meeting later with your CEO you need to prepare for. And… What’s that?

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